Few car enthusiasts can both turn a phrase and reverse the fortunes of a Ponton Mercedes, Ford Country Squire and O'Keefe and Merritt stove like Mr. Jalopy of Hooptyrides. Now, thanks to a recent spread in Japan's Garage Life magazine, we get to peek inside the home garage, where a bounty of treasures — mined from countless desert backyards and the y depths of swap-meet trunks — wait patiently for their turn in the foreground.